August 30th, 2010

But Obama and his party are also in a hole because the president has chosen not to engage the nation in an extended dialogue about what holds all his achievements together, or why his attitude toward government makes more sense than the scattershot conservative attacks on everything Washington might do to improve the nation’s lot.

I thought the best way to prove this would be to show, not tell. And I have another question for Dionne: wouldn’t any such telling by Obama be an extended monologue with the nation, not a dialogue? I mean, isn’t a dialogue a back-and-forth between at least two people? How can the nation answer back?

Although I suppose it’s already sort of answered back through the mechanism of the falling polls.

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Yeah, that’s it, EJ, you nancyboy. We’re just too goddamned stupid to appreciate the Messiah’s wonderfulness. Hell, we don’t even deserve Him. After all, He is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.

“Seen from the inside, the administration is an astonishing success”. Obviously E.J. Dionne has absolutely no grip on reality. Our country is experiencing political organ rejection, and he just thinks that the failing policies need to be sold better!

Given all the speeches ∅ilbama has already given us, he has shown that he has gone above and beyond the call of duty on the monologue side. Regarding the dialogue side, I am reminded of President Nixon, a.k.a. Tricky Dick, going out one evening to talk with some of the Vietnam War protesters who had descended on Washington DC that weekend. Did ∅ilbama attempt to talk with any of the rally people this weekend, let alone watch any of the footage about it?

∅ilbama doesn’t do dialogue. He does “you are ignorant acting stupidly clinging to guns and religion and against freedom of religion and besides I WON” etc. He does talking down exceedingly well. Dialogue? We aren’t at his pay scale, so we don’t merit any dialogue.

There is a story about a dog food company that spent a great deal of money on an advertising campaign. When sales failed to move upward, the company CEO asked the advertising company what the problem was. He was told the dogs don’t like the dog food.

Obama chose to ram healthcare down our throats, rather than listen to the people who who told hi they didn’t want it and instead wanted him to focus on policies that would generate economic growth and jobs.

Since he failed to listen to us, I think alot of us are no longer listening to him.

I’m sick of the condescension, the cheesy smirks, and the constant shifting of blame. I mute the TV every time Obama speaks now. He can talk to the hand.

Monologue. The perfect word to describe the Obama Administration. As he plainly explained, he ignored 500,000 (350,000, 50,000, 20 depending on who’s reporting) people gathered in his neighborhood over the weekend. Last time he left town. THe elections over. We’ve had our dialogue, now it time to shut up, listen and worship at the feet of the master.

If he wants to talk “about what holds all his achievements together”, he would have to concede that they all spring from socialist ideology – and the admin and media have been doing their best to downplay that.

“…attacks on everything Washington might do to improve the nation’s lot.” What? they did something that might improve the nation’s lot? Oh, I see – they did something that they believed, against a century of evidence, would work.

That’s not the same thing, and it deserves to be attacked as the expensive wishful thinking it is.

Isn’t a bad economy causing the public to forget about the health care and cap and trade issues a positive for Dems? It’s not like ‘winners’ are getting lost, where is the public behind Obama on anything? Okay, probably stupid slogans. Who can be against ‘hope and change’?

Since ‘Yes We Can’ is used by both Obama and Bob the Builder, shouldn’t Obama have a similar handle? Barack the Business-killer?

The scribes of the Left think to drown us with words.
Got news for them: It ain’t gonna work.
Two of my friends attended the Glenn Beck rally. Came back very inspired by the experience. They no longer feel like chips afloat in an ocean. We are out there in our millions, with our God and our Honor.
The Ruling Class has earned the fear it feels.

No, E.J., we don’t need to have it explained to us again. It’s already been explained ad nauseam. We understand the program just fine. We just disagree with it. No matter how much lipstick you put on that pig, it’s still a pig.

The President is in trouble, says Mr. Dionne, because he hasn’t explained himself well enough.

Wasn’t that President Bush’s problem? And do you really want to claim that President Obama suffers from the inarticulateness that Bush was ridiculed for?

Heck, Bush took responsibility for this. In his 2004 speech to the Republican Convention, he said, “I have my flaws. I mispronounce a fair number of words. I knew I was in trouble when Arnold Schwarzenegger started correcting me.”

President Obama does this too… but have we ever heard him take responsibility for saying “corpseman”?

In the end, this is a losing strategy. To make this claim, either the President didn’t explain himself well enough — which, as I said, makes him resemble his beloved predecessor — or The People aren’t smart enough to understand his explanations (and making that claim is a great way to lose mid-term elections, isn’t it?).

Obama’s cowering in a hole to shield him from the shelling that is going on, hoping maybe to get out when it dies down. Will it stop or slow down?

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